Tag Archives: Horror Film

New British Werewolf movie looks “Howl-arious”

Posted on 12th May 2015 by firekrank

I thought I would share the trailer for a new British werewolf movie Howl which will be released later this year. As Empire Online points out it is basically werewolves on a train as opposed to snakes on a plane. I think … Continue reading →

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Owen Williams, ‘A History of British Folk Horror’

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

A useful summary of the genre of Folk Horror in film.

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Rachey Taylor: A Review of Xavier Aldana Reyes’ Body Gothic (2014)

Posted on 15th December 2014 by William the Bloody

Rachey Taylor, PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle, enthusiastically reviews OGOM contributor and member of The Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies Xavier Aldana Reyes‘s new book, Body Gothic here; it looks fascinating.

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Davia Sills, ‘The good zombie’

Posted on 6th December 2014 by William the Bloody

Davia Sills charts the rise of the post-Romero humanised zombie and what it might represent. This will be of interest to anyone exploring paranormal romance, particularly texts such as Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead and Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies.

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Adam J Smith, ‘A True Accouneit of Sublime Terror and Paranormal Activity’

Posted on 16th November 2014 by William the Bloody

In this amusing and insightful blog entry, Dr Adam Smith muses on the eighteenth-century origins of terror and the sublime while watching the film Paranormal Activity 4, via Daniel Defoe and Ann Radcliffe.

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The 10 Weirdest Horror Movies of All Time

Posted on 13th November 2014 by William the Bloody

A series of short summaries and excerpts from some astonishingly, bizarrely, silly horror films.

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“There is no escape.” Horace Walpole and the terrifying rise of the Gothic

Posted on 2nd November 2014 by William the Bloody

Nick Groom on the trajectory from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) to present-day Gothic culture. The rise of the Gothic novel to horror and SF film and Goth music and fashion, with a glance at architecture, are all … Continue reading →

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Let me grab your soul away – Kate Bush and gothic

Posted on 18th October 2014 by William the Bloody

A fascinating article tracing Gothic themes in Kate Bush’s songs and the allusions to Gothic cinema therein.

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Bram Stoker International Film Festival, Whitby, 23-27 November 2014

Posted on 11th October 2014 by William the Bloody

The Bram Stoker International Film Festival. A fabulous week of Gothic and horror cinema at Whitby, the Athens of the Gothic.

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IFI Horrorthon 2014, Dublin, 23-27 October 2014

Posted on 2nd October 2014 by Admin

This looks an exciting festival of horror cinema–the IFI Horrorthon 2014 in Dublin (23-27 October 2014)

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